On Pain
Pain should not be. Most of it is unnecessary and could be gotten rid of if it’s bearer would relax the tensions within his body and let the pain simply slide out into the ether.
Picture yourself, literally, in the giant, everlasting arms of One Who cares more for you than you can even imagine. Relax in those arms and just let the pain go. Tense muscles are like a “grasping”, a “hanging onto”: which refuses to let go of anything which we once claimed as our own. But greed, or an unwillingness to release something, can only result in stagnation and staleness.
For example, you already know, Jeanette, that a part of your problem with being overweight is from a lack of trust in God to provide all that you need WHEN you need it. This was a part of the karmic pattern that you ‘inherited’, but you have now become aware of the meaning behind this holding onto the ‘food’. The next step is to retrain the body so that the old ‘habit’ is dropped.
Letting go of the tension, and the pain, is also a trusting in God. Tension represents your physical reaction to your attempts to ‘take care’ of everything by yourself and for yourself. When you learn that God will take care of everything that you need, whenever and wherever you need it, then you can relax and enjoy living.
Do not be afraid to trust God to fill all your needs. Then you no longer need to grasp and hang on to that which you now have. Share it and use it. It will be replaced with ever finer and finer portions of all that your Father owns. Since the world is His and you are His child then the world can be yours at any time.
You may have karmic lessons still holding you back from your full bounty but if you start seeking you will become aware of them. Then you can come under the Law of Grace rather than the Law of Karma. This is God’s way of letting you know that you have indeed ‘passed the test’.
You may have been taught to think of it in terms of God’s forgiveness. But, you see, He never had anything to forgive you for because He never blamed you in the first place. You are on the earth to learn lessons and when you have learned one, then you no longer have to take ‘tests’ in that ‘subject’. It’s as simple as that. So let the pain go; let the pounds go; just trust in love.
Brother Sebastian